Anthropic confirms it's been 'adjusting' Claude usage limits

Anthropic is reducing message limits for even Pro and Max customers during its peak hours in a new effort to cope with demand.

"To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged", said Thariq Shihipar, an engineer who works on Claude Code, in a post on X.

Unlike ChatGPT, which has a daily message limit, Claude operates in five-hour windows. Once you've hit your limit in a five-hour window, you have to use a less premium model, or wait for your next window refresh to use it again.

The change means that during peak hours - 05:00 - 11:00 PT or 13:00 - 19:00 GMT - Claude users could burn five hour session limits in under five hours. At other times of day, a five-hour session will allow users to get more work done. That elastic definition of weekly usage limits is possible because Anthropic does not reveal how many tokens may be used within its five-hour session window.

Claude customers can access a dashboard that shows their progress towards consuming their five-hour daily session limits, and weekly usage limits. If users exceed limits, Claude locks them out... unless they pay for extra usage.

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